Twitter Accidentally Locks Thousands of User Profiles in Anti-Bot Snafu
A large number of users found themselves unable to access Twitter yesterday afternoon after the company accidentally identified their profiles as non-human.
A large number of users found themselves unable to access Twitter yesterday after the company accidentally identified their profiles as non-human.
For about an hour beginning at 3:18pm PST, Twitter closed the door on some accounts that it felt had “exhibited automated behaviour that violates the Twitter Rules.”
These users were then asked to confirm that they were the valid account owner to unlock their account.
I just had to go through a whole process to unlock my account because @twitter
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